Jules Verne Forum

<jvf@Gilead.org.il>

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 19961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009

Phileas Fogg alive and well in Malaysia

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:44:25 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

BlankIn a blog from a Malaysian located at http://idamsdh.multiply.com/ it
mentioned that she was involved in a school production of Around the World
in Eighty Days and this raises an interesting question. I'm a member of a
theatre group here in Wales and in 2005 we did "A Christmas Carol" by
Charles Dickens, but it had been adapated by John "Rumpole of the Bailey"
Mortimer. One day, I forgot where I had put the book and so printed off the
words from an online version of A Christmas Carol and found to my amazement
that they were the same (i.e Mr. Mortimer had copied the work word for word
and just turned into a play). This got me thinking and so I would like to
know the answers to the following questions:

1) If I turned "Around the World in Eighty Days" into a play in the same
manner, would the group who are unable to film copyrighted works be able to
film the production?

2) Having turned it into a play, could I change the whole sutee incident (as
the group play to a family audience) to being rescued from a tribe of Welsh
druids expelled from Wales in the mid 17th century?

No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.10/995 - Release Date: 08/09/2007
1:24 pm

Received on Sat 15 Sep 2007 - 01:44:45 IDT

JV.Gilead.org.il
Copyright © Zvi Har’El
$Date: 2009/02/01 22:36:11 $$